From 61f3805d0e74103a86a072c199f728c872fe8cfe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Opdenacker Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2022 16:58:35 +0100 Subject: dev-manual: details about using firewalls and limiting fetch threads Fixes [YOCTO #13235] (From yocto-docs rev: cf76420c50f13762fb800a19931a8af5ae3567cf) Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie --- documentation/dev-manual/common-tasks.rst | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) (limited to 'documentation') diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/common-tasks.rst b/documentation/dev-manual/common-tasks.rst index e71c352549..ca3fbc856a 100644 --- a/documentation/dev-manual/common-tasks.rst +++ b/documentation/dev-manual/common-tasks.rst @@ -1476,6 +1476,22 @@ compressed suffixes such as ``diff.gz`` and ``patch.bz2``, for example. The build system automatically applies patches as described in the ":ref:`dev-manual/common-tasks:patching code`" section. +Fetching Code Through Firewalls +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Some users are behind firewalls and need to fetch code through a proxy. +See the ":doc:`/ref-manual/faq`" chapter for advice. + +Limiting the Number of Parallel Connections +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Some users are behind firewalls or use servers where the number of parallel +connections is limited. In such cases, you can limit the number of fetch +tasks being run in parallel by adding the following to your ``local.conf`` +file:: + + do_fetch[number_threads] = "4" + Unpacking Code -------------- -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf